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Why we came up with the idea for an online crowd procurement platform and how we did it

Why…

We are a small company that have 20 years experience in sales of promotional products to major international companies. Most products purchased by businesses are the same, just with different logo and maybe color. Even within the same company different departments bought the same product several times within a short period. This results in all businesses receive prices based on smaller quantities, because each company or department buys independently.

Our idea…

We decided to develop a crowd procurement system. The system should help companies to pool their orders across departments and across companies so that greater overall quantities are reached. The system would automatically pool orders without administrative hassle for the individual user.

Our vision…

Our vision is to create an international crowd procurement system where companies can pool their orders across borders and where suppliers can collect the orders into one larger order for more cost effective productions.

Win Win Business…

Both suppliers and customers get benefits from this crowd procurement system. The customer will receive lower prices and buy at lower MOQ since the total quantity is shared between several departments and companies.

The supplier also get an overall larger order and can produce the goods in large quantities. This provides a more cost effective production with less waste for the supplier.

As large productions create less waste, the environment will also benefit from this system.

Companies can create their own platforms with own products and groups of businesses can come together on a common platform. The system will always automatically coordinate purchases of the same product across any platform. All platforms will have the same low price and benefits.

How we did it…

We have spent 3 years developing the first module of the LINK Network crowd procurement platform. This platform is based on promotional products but we will adapt the system to all industries and product groups in line with more customers and suppliers joining the system.